Product Manager

Obsess is an experiential e-commerce platform, that enables retailers to create 3D 360 VIRTUAL STORES on their websites. We are a managed SaaS platform and have created proprietary patent-pending technology to deliver beautiful and fast web VR shoppable experiences. Our customers are large brands and retailers across fashion, beauty, and various other verticals.

We are a startup based in New York City, backed by Village Global (fund backed by top tech entrepreneurs including Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, etc), Jump Capital, The VR Fund, Techstars and more. Our founder & CEO is an MIT alum who was formerly an engineer & tech lead at Google for 5 years and then led product at Vogue.

Responsibilities

• Gather requirements from client team, product leadership, CEO and content team
• Write precise, actionable tickets for the engineering team
• Work closely with engineering team - inhouse and offshore - to explain requirements, align priorities, get estimates
• Drive product execution and oversee development work streams on a day to day basis.
• Conduct acceptance testing on completed tickets daily
• Drive production releases daily
• Strategic thinking and problem solving
• Interface with clients to communicate project status updates

Requirements

• 2-4 years experience in a product manager or software engineer role
• Analytical thinking and ability to break down complex problems into actionable tasks
• Experience having worked on complex software projects in a product manager or software engineer role
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Experience with agile and kanban software development methodology
• Experience with gathering requirements and writing tickets
• Experience with acceptance testing and filing bug reports
• Experience working with offshore dev teams
• Extremely strong project management and organization skills
• Ability to multi-task and own the product delivery process
• Technical expertise – understanding of components of web architecture like frontend frameworks, backend APIs and cloud infrastructure
• A Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a closely related field, or equivalent experience
• Fast learner, proactive, positive, can-do attitude